Kyoto University Graduate School of Informatics Nishida Shohei

Agenda
1. Introduction 2. Japanese activities 3. Recent status 4. Conclusion

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1-0. Self Introduction

Nishida Shohei Kyoto University

Graduate school of Informatics

History:
2007-2010 : Contestant (d3sxp) 2011 : Coach (hkiikh,317)

2011- : Japanese Alumni Group

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1-1. Practice is very important!

A lot of practice environment!

Topcoder (United States) Codeforces (Russia) CodeChef (India) PKU (China) etc.

Importance
Strong teams know a lot of environment To know and join are very important!
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1-2. Japanese activities for practice

How is in Japan?
There are many activities too. In this few years, more active! Todays main topic!

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Agenda
1. Introduction 2. Japanese activities 3. Recent status 4. Conclusion

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2. Three main activities in Japan!

Contests

Online Judge

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2-1. Online Judge

Online Judge is past problem archive.

We can solve many problems The system check where our solution is

correct or not

Online Judge is contest system.

This system works on the Web Many contests are held on these systems

In Japan
Three famous judges
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2-1. Online judge

Aizu Online Judge

Most active online judge in Japan. This is run by some staff and students in Aizu

Univ There are many problems (700-800 problems) http://judge.u-aizu.ac.jp/onlinejudge/

Atcoder
A little specialized for contest We can solve past problems. http://atcoder.jp/

M-Judge
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2-1 Online judge

2-2. Contests

Student-hosted contest
Aizu, Kyoto, Saitama, Tokyo, Ritsumeikan Some individuals host The contests are held in online judge There are onsite contests

Company-hosted contest Problem difficulty

Most of these contests are as same as Asia

Regional contest
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2-2 Contests

2-3. Training Camp

3 - 4 days Solve many problems

Participants make problems, gather it and

hold contests

Make friends
sharing their knowledge

Organizer
Japanese Alumni Group Aizu and Ritsumeikan Univ New!!
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Agenda
1. Introduction 2. Japanese activities 3. Recent status 4. Conclusion

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3.1 We are getting more active!

Japanese problem setting skill is UP

Number of problem setter

Some contest systems are activated

How to set the contest

We can share the information about contests easily

On onsite, On twitter, etc

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3.2 Current Status

Japanese contestants become strong

They learn more about algorithm They write more programs They solve more difficult problems

They are expecting more events! Activities make them strong !

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3.3 Lets hold a event!

Please support these events

These events are held by students themselves They want to hold ONSITE contest more enjoyable more interactive But students have some difficulties place, money, etc

Lets support these events !

Agenda
1. Introduction 2. Japanese activities 3. Recent status 4. Conclusion

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4. Conclusion

There are many events in Japan. Dont hesitate to join these activities.
Everyone is welcome !

Lets hold the practice events!

We can support the contestants

We can enjoy with them

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Thank you!

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